Microsoft Bing now uses OpenAI's DALL-E A.I. to turn text into images

Microsoft connected Tuesday added a caller artificial intelligence-powered capableness to its hunt slate: AI-generated visuals.

The caller tool, powered by OpenAI's DALL-E, volition let users to make images utilizing their ain words, specified arsenic asking for a representation of "an astronaut walking done a postulation of sunflowers," the institution explained successful a press release.

The feature, called "Bing Image Creator," volition beryllium disposable to Bing and Microsoft Edge users successful preview. It volition archetypal rotation retired successful the hunt engine's "Creative Mode." Eventually, it'll go afloat integrated into the Bing chat experience, the institution added.

On Microsoft Edge, the representation generator volition go disposable successful the browser's hunt bar.

Microsoft has bolstered its AI-assisted hunt functions successful caller months, archetypal announcing AI-powered updates to Bing and Edge successful early February.

Last week, the tech elephantine besides announced it would adhd its generative AI exertion to immoderate of its astir fashionable concern apps, including Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

Excitement astir the committedness of generative AI has been driven successful ample portion by the runaway occurrence of ChatGPT, which was released by Microsoft-backed OpenAI successful November.

As Microsoft's caller capabilities became disposable to users, immoderate beta testers identified issues, including threats, unhelpful proposal and different glitches.

Microsoft says it's taken steps to curb the misuse of Bing Image Creator by moving with OpenAI to make information measures for the public.

These information measures see controls "that purpose to bounds the procreation of harmful oregon unsafe images," positive a modified Bing icon that volition beryllium added to the bottommost near country of images, with the extremity of clarifying the images were created utilizing AI, Microsoft said.

Microsoft's tiered attack to Bing Image Creator's rollout is besides inspired by the iterative attack the institution attempted with past releases.

"People utilized it successful immoderate ways we expected and others we didn't," Microsoft said of Bing's caller capabilities. "In this tone of learning and continuing to physique caller capabilities responsibly, we're rolling retired Bing Image Creator successful a phased attack by flighting with a acceptable of preview users earlier expanding much broadly."